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The Brooklyn Museum in New York City has received a massive capital investment from the Department of Cultural Affairs — $50 million, the largest single gift in the institution’s history. The funding, announced yesterday by Mayor Bill de Blasio, will support gallery renovations and energy-efficient updates. — Hyperallergic
The original McKim, Mead & White-designed structure underwent an extensive renovation at the hands of Ennead in the early 1990s and more recent renovations to the 2nd and 5th-floor galleries that were completed in 2019. The museum has been in a precarious position financially for quite some time... View full entry
In a follow-up to its recently announced renovation, the Tampa Museum of Art is growing once again thanks to a new $65 million expansion effort led by Weiss/Manfredi. Image courtesy Weiss/Manfredi Overlooking Tampa’s Hillsborough River, the new expansion affords a footprint that is almost double... View full entry
The wait has ended for the revamped Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. The world’s first publicly accessible art storage depot officially opened to the public over the weekend after a five-year-long construction period led by MVRDV. Visitors will now be able to interact with over... View full entry
After exceeding its own ambitious annual attendance goals to the tune of over 50,000 visitors, Los Angeles’ Holocaust Museum is set to expand on its existing 28,000-square-foot facility with a new extension plan from its original designer Hagy Belzberg. Located in Pan Pacific Park at the... View full entry
As part of the newly reopened Denver Art Museum renovation project, OMA has transformed the design galleries of the iconic Martin Building in order to better display, exhibit, and communicate the museum’s robust holdings in architecture and design. The remade space features two new... View full entry
For the last 17 years, “this gorgeous piece of architecture” has “sat shrouded in mystery” in the middle of the National Mall, said Ms. Goslins, invoking the metaphor of Sleeping Beauty. — The New York Times
Similar to other formerly dormant cultural institutions, the reopening of the 140-year-old Arts and Industries Building will coincide with an exhibition titled FUTURES. The show goes on view November 20th and will feature a hodgepodge of art, architecture, and technology like the Virgin... View full entry
As part of an institutional pivot that will take the combination art and history museum in a new direction, Calgary’s Glenbow Museum has officially closed its doors ahead of a three-year-long renovation project meant to reinterpret the 55-year-old museum’s image and impact on the local... View full entry
Following a six-year delay fueled by the Covid-19 crisis and by political and financial tensions reverberating throughout the country, Spain’s council of ministers has awarded Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado $42 million to complete a long-anticipated expansion. The country will dole out the funds over a three-year span, allowing the institution to renovate the neighboring Hall of Realms, which it purchased in 2012. — Artforum
The Foster + Partners-led Museo del Prado expansion was originally announced in 2016 and planned to coincide with the museum’s 200th anniversary three years later. The project, which is being coordinated with the help of Madrid-based Rubio Arquitectura, will focus on the adjacent 17th-century... View full entry
When it finally opens on Thursday, the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will do so in a similar vein to so many of this year’s star-studded fall releases. The $484 million museum’s first act will be as a barometer for an industry looking once again to pack theaters and captivate audiences... View full entry
One of Germany’s premier collections of modern art is now reopened in the city of Duisburg thanks to an expansion project from Herzog & de Meuron. Featuring an additional 2,500 square meters (26,900 square feet) of exhibition and gallery space, the firm expanded on its original 1999 reworking of... View full entry
One of America’s most influential private art museums is moving forward with an expansion into new territory thanks to a partnership with Beyer Blinder Belle. Image courtesy Beyer Blinder Belle Nearly two years after opening its new 100,000-square-foot Selldorf Architects-designed space in... View full entry
This post is sponsored by TerraViva Competitions With the aim of imagining a museum capable of breaking with the conventions of the traditional, the challenge of this competition was to integrate an accommodation program in the heart of the Nivola Museum’s park. Competitors were therefore... View full entry
An opening date has been set for the long-anticipated M+ Museum in Hong Kong after years of delays. The $750 million project from Herzog & de Meuron is being heralded as Asia’s largest and most significant center for contemporary visual art and was seen as the centerpiece of Hong Kong’s West... View full entry
Do leopards change their spots? One only has to look at the command structure of the Taliban and their supporters to feel that there won’t be much of a change from 2001—and it might well be worse. [...]
Much of the archaeological landscape has simply gone. Many of the Buddhist monuments were dynamited in 2001, partly in search of portable antiquities to loot.
— The Art Newspaper
Some of Afghanistan's museums had reportedly begun preparations months ago, others are at a loss as fear and paranoia grips what remains of civil society after a 20-year occupation. The city of Herat poses a special risk as its educational heritage and historic citadel have led some to the... View full entry
Snøhetta has unveiled a new extension and landscape design for the Ordrupgaard Museum in Denmark. Originally built as a three-winged, neo-classical country mansion during World War I, the museum was expanded by a modern glass and black lava concrete extension in 2005, designed by Zaha... View full entry
